SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Santa Rosa Woman Assaulted For Driving Through Protest California's COVID hospitalizations have hit a new high, a hospital in Lodi is dealing with an outbreak among staffers, and Patagonia has joined a group of companies pulling ads from Facebook.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Orphan Andy's In Castro Gets Plastic Partitions Between Booths, Shower Curtains As restaurants prepare to open for indoor dining next month, we're likely to see a lot of creative solutions to the problem of people's anxiety about being in close quarters with strangers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mountain Lion Possibly Killed Three Marsupials at SF Zoo Contra Costa County is now on a state watch list due to rising COVID hospitalizations, AMC Theaters walked back that no-mask stuff, and the SF Zoo is investigating whether that wayward mountain lion cub might have killed two wallaroos and a kangaroo last week.
SF News SF Man Yells 'Blue Lives Matter,' Allegedly Threatens To Kill Family Wearing Black Lives Matter Shirts At Restaurant A San Francisco man isn't quite doing SF proud if what San Mateo County authorities say is true. He's accused of yelling at a family of five outside a Burlingame restaurant last week and threatening to shoot them for wearing Black Lives Matter shirts.
SF News Noted Nudist Activist Gypsy Taub, In Jail for Six Months On Stalking and Attempted Abduction Charges, Seeks Reduced Bail Gypsy Taub (pictured at left), who for years made headlines in San Francisco and her hometown of Berkeley for her "body freedom" activism and nudist parades, was arrested in December after allegedly violating a restraining order and "stalking" the teenage friend of her son.
Arts & Entertainment Juneteenth Protests, Rallies, and Celebrations Scheduled Throughout the Bay Area To mark the day during this time of national conversation — and protest — over racial and social justice, there are multiple events happening around the Bay Area both on- and offline.
SF News Muni Announces Major Light-Rail Changes As It Makes Plan To Restart Train Service In August The SFMTA is going to be significantly altering how trains run through the Muni Metro tunnels from West Portal through downtown San Francisco when the system reopens for business in August.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Twitter Flags Another Trump Tweet The SF Public Library is reopening some branches this summer, Californians will all be getting mail-in ballots for November, and Alameda County is reopening outdoor dining and indoor retail starting today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Family Seeks Answers After Berkeley Student Is Killed On the Street A 60-year-old SF man was arrested for the killing of his 80-year-old female roommate, wildfires were burning in multiple parts of the Bay Area today, and Oakland is now investigating a hanging effigy on a Lake Merritt tree.
SF News Contra Costa, Santa Clara County Health Officers Get Threats From Anti-Lockdown Lunatics Someone, or a group of someones, recently went to the home of Contra Costa County Public Health Officer Dr. Chris Farnitano and wrote on the sidewalk outside, "My body my choice" and, "Tyranny is not the answer."
SF News Governor Gavin Newsom Issues Statewide Mask Order In a move that is sure to anger the Trump supporters and other anti-mask, anti-lockdown activists in many corners of the state, Governor Gavin Newsom has just issued a statewide order requiring all residents to wear face coverings in public to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Arts & Entertainment Bad News: Male Peregrine Falcon Ate First Hatchling As It Emerged From Egg In PG&E Building Nest Mother Nature can be cruel. And in the case of the clutch of eggs that a female peregrine falcon has been incubating for over a month, all on live internet television, atop the PG&E building on Beale Street in San Francisco, it was the dad who ate his own young this time.
SF News Solano County COVID Case Count Rises 15% In One Day; Health Officer Blames Protests, Social Gatherings While much of the nine-county Bay Area has seen fairly steady and minimal growth in the cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, Solano County just recorded its single biggest one-day jump in cases.
Arts & Entertainment After Years of Protest and Vandalism, Columbus Statue Is Removed From Telegraph Hill As recently as October, Supervisor Aaron Peskin was vowing to prosecute the vandals who tossed red paint all over the statue of Christopher Columbus near Coit Tower. But now it's gone. Will Columbus Avenue be next?
SF News Home Invasion Suspects Take Hostages In Standoff With San Jose Police Two home invasion suspects were in an early morning standoff with police in San Jose, and they have now been taken into custody.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Can't End DACA, SCOTUS Says The four young people who died in a crash by the Carquinez Bridge have been ID'd, the SFPD's Taraval Station captain has been removed for unknown reasons, and Trump now says Kaepernick should be able to play.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stinson Beach Explosion Damaged Historic Sand Dollar Restaurant The Tuesday morning explosion in Stinson Beach occurred in a real estate office, workers at a McDonald's in Oakland are suing over COVID exposure, and Oakland is investigating some "nooses" that were found around Lake Merritt that may have been exercise equipment.
SF News Arrest Made In Fatal Hunters Point Shooting The SFPD on Wednesday announced an arrest in connection with a shooting last week that left a woman in Hunters Point dead.
Business & Tech Facebook Is — A Little Late — Banning the Term 'Boogaloo' and Shutting Down Affiliated Groups Facebook seems to be learning about these fringe groups along with the rest of the country in the wake of several violent incidents — including two fatal shootings in Oakland and Santa Cruz.
SF News Homeless Woman Allegedly Pushes Man Onto BART Tracks In Front of Oncoming Train, And He Narrowly Escapes A woman identified as a transient who had been sleeping on a bench nearby is accused of attempted murder after allegedly shoving a man onto the BART tracks at Downtown Berkeley Station Monday night.
SF News Outbreak at San Quentin Leads to 46 COVID Cases Among Inmates; Activists Call For More Releases Prison outbreaks of COVID-19 have been widespread nationwide, and San Quentin State Prison in Marin County is the latest to see one. To date, 46 inmates have tested positive, and it's unclear how many prison employees have been impacted as well.
Arts & Entertainment Blue Whales Make Rare Appearance Off San Francisco Coast, Prompting Warning For Ships The Northern California coast tends to get its fair share of sightings of humpback whales and gray whales, but the largest mammals on earth, blue whales, don't do swim-bys quite so often as other species. This year, all rules are out the window.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Four Die In Carquinez Bridge Crash The SF Board of Supervisors is putting a new tax on the ballot aimed at overpaid CEOs, the memorial service for the slain Santa Cruz deputy is today, and four people died in a horrific SUV crash last night in Crockett.
SF News Santa Cruz Shooter Charged Along With 'Boogaloo Movement' Accomplice In Oakland Shooting Of Federal Officers Once again, a disturbing corner of the internet has popped into mainstream headlines by way of two men who were convinced a civil war is looming, and that members of law enforcement need to be killed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Healdsburg Mayor Resigns Over Police Comments A San Francisco woman says she was racially profiled at a Safeway, a mountain lion was spotted wandering the city, and the family of Oscar Grant is calling for the resignation of BART director Debora Allen.
